Thanks for the reply. After some checking I replaced the neutral safetey switch and that didn’t work. So I figured it has to have something to do with the reverse lights so I took them out and everything works perfect! I put the passenger side light in and it still worked fine, then i put the drivers side bulb back in and it started happening again. So I think the socket may be bad, weird huh? I read the chiltons manual at the store and found out that the reverse lights lead to a ignition cut off relay so if there is a short the relay kicks in and turns off your ignition line.

I have never heard of a circuit like that. I can’t understand why they would do such a thing and it seems very strange to me. If that line was shorted the lights would not work and it seems a fuse would blow out. Are the bulbs the correct wattage for the reverse lights?

Another thought on this, perhaps there is a bad power connection to those areas and the extra load of the reverse lights is causing a voltage drop across it and that causes the other things to die. I assume you aren’t blowing a fuse out so this sounds like the most likely trouble to me now.